Posted on 07/22/2010 12:00:25 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
More quotes from Shirley Sherrod’s famous NAACP speech which you can watch in full here and make your own judgment. Do you want Shirley Sherrod in charge of the USDA outreach position that would deal with discrimination matters?
The people with money, the elites decided, hey, we need to do something here to divide them [the white and black servants]so that’s where they made black people servants for life. That’s when they put laws in place forbidding them to marry each other. That’s when they created the racism that we know of today.People from the other side of town?They did it to keep us divided. And here we are over 400 years later and it is still working. What we need to do is get that out of our heads. There is no difference between us.
The only difference is that the folks with money wanna stay in power and whether it is health care or something else they would do whatever they need to do to keep that power. It is always about money, Yo’al…
Somehow we got to make the other side of town to work with us. We’ve got to make our communities what they need to be and our young people, I am not picking on you, but you all got to step up to the plate. You are capable of being very, very smart people. You are capable of being all those doctors and lawyers. You are capable of running your own business.
This is one of the things in the position I am in, one of the things that really hurts; one of the programs that we have with the most money in it is for business and industry. And I am sitting up there and I am signing all forms… 6 million, 3 million, 2 million but who is it going to? Not one so far. We are approaching 80 million dollars since October 1, but not 1 dime to a black business.
Not one.
The Obama 2008 Speech on Race gives us explanation to Shirley Sherrod’s remarks:
This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. They came of age in the late fifties and early sixties, a time when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted. What’s remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but rather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them.
But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn’t make it – those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination.
That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations – those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table.At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician’s own failings….
So the Department of Agriculture will hire the past – Shirley Sherrod – a woman deeply wounded from the darkest past of racism (her father was killed by a white man and the justice was never served for her and her dad) for outreach on discrimination matters.
The bright side is Shirley Sherrod believes in change. Unfortunately it is a kind of change that is about taking from one and giving to another as the government sees fit.
In a world where Iran is on the women’s rights commission at the UN, I bet Obama thinks this is just fine.
Shakedown Czar?
You may be right about that. May be Obama can bring back Van Jones to consult the outreach to BP.
Obama can’t see the big racial chip on her shoulder because he can’t see past the chip on his shoulder.
Racial Relations and Discrimination in Agriculture Czar - as I understand it - what are they offering to her.
So after seeing the edited clip, I came to the conclusion that Sherrod was a racist. I even expressed sympathy for her if her father was killed by white men and never got justice. I got attacked by some FReepers for saying she was a racist, but from what I saw and heard, I don't know what other conclusion I could come to.
Maybe she is not a racist. Maybe she is just molded and shaped by the past, as this article says, growing up in the days of segregation and ignorance. I do understand where her generation is coming from. Things were bad for blacks back then. I don't think we need grievances and chips on the shoulder from a racial past guiding a leader for the future. My two cents.
Shirley Sherrod has been redeemed. Poor white farmers are now okay. Rich white farmers, not so much.
She is just a voice from the past -as NAACP.
She overcame racism and embraced communism.
I think what they tried to run with her husband and failed is kind of USSR kolkhoz (those starved a lot of people).
No wonder they went bankrupt.Socialism always does.
I think she would make an extremely good discriminator at USDA. I am sure she would provide all claimants with legal representation from “one of their own” and insure the USDA pays out a whole lotta cash to colored people. Isn’t that what discrimination is all about?
Kind of like putting Orson Welles in charge of the cookie jar.
Kind of like Tiger Woods guarding the playboy mansion - we know he repented, but...
I guess they believed her speech. They should make her speech writer for Obama.
The USDA gives taxpayers’ money to farmers, and the taxpayers get nothing in return. Then it is alleged that these free gifts were not equally distributed along racial lines; so the USDA settles this lawsuit by giving $1 billion more of the taxpayers’ money to those who claim they did not get enough earlier, to compensate for their pain and suffering in not having gotten their fair share of the free money being handed out. Then one of the recipients of this lawsuit money becomes an employee of the USDA, but indicates reluctance to give free money to some people because they were not of her race, which is the same as the race of the President of the country in whose administration she now works. Houston we have a problem.
...”but indicates reluctance to give free money to some people because they were not of her race.”
That reluctance occurred 24 years ago. She overcame it and spent two years helping this family keep their farm. That is what the rest of the speech is about. That is why the farmer’s family went on TV to defend her.
We don’t “have a problem” if all the people who make mistakes and errors because of their preconceptions actually change their minds and work to overcome their prejudices. For instance, *you* might change your mind about Sherrod’s behavior if you saw or read the whole speech. It’s certainly been posted here enough.
“Not one so far. We are approaching 80 million dollars since October 1, but not 1 dime to a black business.”
So why doesn’t she accuse her self of racism? After all, she’s the one “signing the checks”.
“I got attacked by some FReepers for saying she was a racist”
Yes, there are many here who have drank the Kool Aid.
Are you saying that farmers don’t get the shaft from rich politicians and bankers? lol
“I think what they tried to run with her husband and failed is kind of USSR kolkhoz”
Read deeper. They never intended to succeed. But it was necessary to attempt in order to give them standing for their lawsuit, which paid them something like 13 million.
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